Sunday, June 2, 2013
The Chatham Community Players will perform "Angels in America, Part I: Millennium Approaches" to kick off their 92nd season this fall.
Since "Angels in America, Part I: Millennium Approaches" premiered in 1990 at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, it has been hailed as something an "emotional, poetic, political play," according to Executive Producer Chris Furlong of the Chatham Community Players. The play, Parts I and II, received numerous awards after both were staged in completion in 1992 and premiered on Broadway in 1993. The play has been adapted into an HBO film, an opera and into chorale music. Now it comes to the Chatham stage. Open auditions for the Tony Kushner play will be held at 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday at the Chatham Playhouse. "Angels in America" "is set in the 1980s against a backdrop of greed, conservatism, sexual politics, religious identity and the …
Sunday, May 5, 2013
The Chatham Players present the world's longest-running musical at the conclusion of their 91st season.
For the end of their 91st season, the Chatham Players will perform the beloved musical "The Fantasticks," the world's longest-running off-Broadway production. According to Chris Furlong, executive producer of the Chatham Players, "The Fantasticks" is "the story of forbidden love between the son and daughter of feuding neighbors," told in an enchanting "mix of William Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet,' Donizetti's 'L'Elisir d'Amore' and Rostand's 'Les Romanesques.'" "The Fantasticks" has been performed more than any other off-Broadway musical. The original 1960 production ran for 42 years and 17,162 performances, and numerous other professional and amateur productions have been staged throughot the world ever since. "The Fantasticks has …
Monday, January 14, 2013
Chatham native Carl Forsman brings professional performers to the local playhouse.
The Chatham Community Playhouse hosted performers from Keen Co., an off-Broadway theater company in New York City, for their annual benefit show, "Broadway in the Boro." Former Artistic Director Carl Forsman, a Chatham native who had his first on-stage kiss in a local production of "The Music Man," brought some of Keen's performers to the Chatham Playhouse for the event. Forsman left Keen in 2012 to become the dean of the North Carolina School of the Arts. The new artistic director at Keen, Jonathan Silverstein, hosted the benefit, along with Forsman and actor Matt Servitto. The performers—Katie Donohue, Ryan Jesse, Sara King, Kat Nejat, Spencer PLachy and Hayley Treider—sang two songs each, accompanied on the piano by Logan Culwell. They …
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Seventh annual cabaret benefit scheduled for Monday at Community Playhouse.
Once a year, you don't have to go into New York City to get Broadway entertainment. Keen Company, the off-Broadway theater group, returns to Chatham Borough at 7 p.m. Monday for their seventh annual cabaret benefit performance known as "Broadway in the Boro." Board Member and Chatham resident Amy Ball said the evening is always a special one. "There are five or six performers, and there's an opportunity for them ... to choose what they sing. They usually share stories about why they like a particular song, why it's important to them or their careers. You get an inside view into these performers' profession," Ball said. Monday's performance will include Matt Servitto, known to television audiences from his role as an FBI agent on "The …
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Chatham Community Players will perform the Tracy Letts' thriller 'BUG' starting Friday.
Not for the faint of heart, "BUG" the drama written by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winner Tracy Letts, will be performed by the Chatham Community Players beginning Friday at 8 p.m. Bob Pridham, who is familiar to Chatham Playhouse audiences for directing past productions such as “Rabbit Hole”, "The Graduate", “How I Learned To Drive" and "Side Man" will direct the play he referred to as "a terrific show" and "a nasty little piece." "Once we've managed to lock down all of our blood-letting and gasoline sequences, we'll be in good shape," Pridham laughed. "It's not a tough thing to stage because in this case I have actors who really are very much up to the challenge and very ready to wade into the discomfort of the piece." The thriller …
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
The Chatham Community Players will host the festival in July and August.
The Chatham Community Players announced performance dates for the one-act Jersey Voices Festival, which will run for five performances between July 29 and Aug. 6. The 17th annual festival includes five one-act plays by New Jersey playwrights, and one original dance piece about the Lenape tribe of Native Americans, who lived in Chatham before the area was settled by Europeans. Producer Bob Denmark said the plays "range from spy intrigue to an interaction in the Ladies Room - you know, the usual great stuff that New Jersey authors send us." Two of the plays, a modern interpretation of Biblical stories and a play about a salesman and a little girl, are directed by Chatham residents. "I’m constantly amazed and excited by the creativity, the …
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Hillary Singer
8:32 am on Monday, May 6, 2013
Thinking of taking my 7th grade daughter. Any advice on the age appropriateness of this play? more ›